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Monday, September 22, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008

Apparently this is supposed to look like a baseball field. For those of you who don't see a problem with it, do like I did and go ask your husband. (Or if you're at work, that annoying guy a few cubicles over who starts every conversation with "Dude, did you see the game last night?".)

Of course, if baseball fields were laid out this way, I bet the sport would be a lot more interesting. You know, in a Funniest-Home-Videos kind of way.

Further evidence of female involvement: that lace doily under the cake. I'm pretty sure no guy would feel the urge to "pretty up" the cake board - or for that matter, add an airbrushed red stripe on the side. What's that for, anyway?

MaryAnn C., I would say this is a home run, but on this cake you just can't do that. (The home run, that is.)

NOTE: Yeah, yeah, I know not all women are clueless about sports, just like I know there are probably guys out there who wouldn't know a baseball field isn't laid out in a giant 'X'. I simply choose not to acknowledge those people.

@Kenya Starflight: You really are clueless at sports, hon; that's the Cleveland Indians' flag in the front of that cluster (along with what looks like the Mets, the Cardinals, and...I don't know what that "T" is), not the Atlanta Braves'.

I'm one of those rare female baseball fans, and I'm trying to figure out how this game would be played.

Pitcher throws the ball...batter gets a base hit...then, what?, charges the mound and tackles the pitcher on the way to first? What if it's an extra base hit? That would require twice as much running, each base requiring a trip to the mound. And what about a walk? *shudder* Too confusing. And totally hilarious.

Well...hmmm... the logo in the top right corner looks like it's for the New York Yankees. Perhaps the cake was for someone who is NOT a Yankee's fan. Yeah... and they were um... making fun of the Yankees by saying this is how they play ball... or... um... something...

If it wasn't for all the Indian's decor in the background, I might be questioning if it was supposed to be a cricket field. Now that's a sport I don't understand. (I'm one of those women who likes sports...even NASCAR to my husband's amusment given my background....)

Since you started the whole stereo-typing thing (is that word hyphenated?), I'll add to it. Even if the decorator was a guy, do you really think he'd be all into sports? He' a cake decorator!! Chances are if he watches baseball he isn't paying attention to the field (Hello Matt Holiday! with your hat on of course)

This made me laugh because there was a 3 year old on my son's t-ball team this year who ran the bases JUST LIKE THIS! Get a hit, run to pitcher's mound, get shooed to first base by the coaches and parents, next hit, run to pitcher's mound, get shooed to second, etc. This cake is clearly for him, bless his lil heart =)--Gretchen

Okay, I will say that I usually try to figure out the wreck before I read the commentary. My first thought was "golf"--probably because of all the green--and my initial glimpse of it was interpreted as a golf ball with crossed clubs behind it. Then I looked closer.

Yeesh.

The thing is, if you don't just use frosting out of a can, using the rosebud tip can be pretty effective, or at least won't result in droopy swamp grass.

Maybe the red line is just to offset the nasty, blinding amount of Incredible-Hulk green on this darned cake. It needs something. There ain't enough milk in the world.

I imagine with this particular version of the game, a player hits the ball and then runs straight toward the pitcher and tries to beat him senseless with the bat. Gives the pitcher way more incentive to strike him out, don't ya think?

Ahhh...someone failed geometry. See it's called a baseball DIAMOND. Not a baseball X. :-D I don't think you need to be a girl that's into sports to see what's wrong with this.Gotta agree I want to see the game that K-Bro describes though.

When you order a cake, even if its something simple that everyone should get, perhaps you should include a photo to clue in the decorator. Oh and that flag in the background is not the Braves, it's the Cleveland Indians http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=cle

My initial thought was, "oh! someone was trying to make a cute mini-golf cake!" Then I stared at it trying to figure out why there were 4 starting points all going to the same spot... Then, you know my next thought? honestly? "The edges make it look like the Care of Magical Creatures book from Harry Potter" - complete with teeth and red gums! :O)

This is about as unlikely to be cricket as it is to be baseball. As someone with a knowledge of at least the vague basics of both I am irritated by the "Oh how could that even be baseball" comments that follow it up with "maybe it's cricket". Go google cricket pitches.

Okay, I’m gonna get a little nit-picky here (since Field of Dreams is one of my favourite movies, and Shoeless Joe is one of my favourite books). The actually line is "If you build it, he will come.", not "they will come" (it's in reference to one person: Joe Jackson). It was appropriated for advertisement after the movie came out, and now everyone says "they".

Say it with me people "Baseball DIAMOND". I can't stress that eenough - "DIAMOND". I too was also looking for little plastic baseball players so everybody could look at the cake & say "Ooooh, that's what it's supposed to be".

Diamond, they call it a diamond, gee what american hasn't heard the baseball diamond even if they've never seen one. Oh yeah, I am assuming an American did this cake..Well it could be a whole new craze, something like a crozz between baseball and Parchesi. The red stripe, hmmmm maybe all that grass is coveing up yet another wreck ... you know the wreck layer concept.

Ok, in reference to Kaye..you are right about the 'he' vs. 'they' coming if you build it line in the movie...and I love that movie too...but I always thought that the 'he' they referenced was ultimately his father...since that's the one he wanted to 'have a catch with'.

Wow. While I'm female and now a huge sports fan, when I saw that I thought, "What the heck is that? Looks like it's some kind of field." When you said it's supposed to be a baseball field... wow. I have no words. Even if you've never seen one, wouldn't you at least try to get a reference picture? And wouldn't the phrase "baseball diamond" tip you off that it's diamond shaped?

Cake recipient is a pitcher. Cake decorator was his dear old mum or his wife, who would want him to feel like the center of the universe on his special day, which explains why the pitcher's mound is much bigger than everything else and why the bases and home plate all lead to the pitcher's mound.

At first I knew on some level what this decorator was trying to acheive. Then I just about died laughing. Images of little baseball players wearing eyepatches while trying to dig around in the infield looking for buried treasure at the X.

All it needs Captain Morgan with his foot on the chest on the pitcher's mound. Or at least a bottle of Captain Morgan to drown the sorrows of yet another cake wreck.

I'm pretty sure the "drippy" border is supposed to be leaves. Perhaps it's meant to invoke the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field? Of course, that would imply that the decorator had seen a baseball field.

Come on people, have you really never seen a baseball X before? I mean, I was playing with intoxicated apes at the time and had to be drugged by said apes in order to play, but I'm sure baseball X's are a common thing. Aren't they?

Ok...when I first looked at this pic, I couldn't find anything wrong with it at first....then the problem eventually dawned on me. hahaha I think if the bases were set like that I would watch baseball more. :D

I am the one that purchased the cake. I am the wife of a HUGE Yankee fan. It was a baseball themed party for my husband's 30th birthday. I asked the cake decorator to make a baseball field and I did have plastic baseball players to put on it.....but after seeing what she did to the cake I just left it the way it was. I didn't know the outcome of the cake until I got to the party (I had my sister-in-law pick it up for me). I was beyond upset about the way it looked...but all the guests got a kick out of it. However, the cake did taste awesome.

I was going to post a rant about why is a baseball infield called a "diamond", when it is clearly a SQUARE. Then AngelJoy clarified it for me... from the perspective of the stands, or anywhere on the ground, it sort of looks like a diamond. I try to avoid this perspective (being near a baseball game) unless it includes free food and drinks, so if I go to a game, I am not noticing what the field looks like. But agreed with Heartafire, turning an X does not make it look any less like an X.

And also, like Orianna, I was scarred by the mean kids and overzealous coach/parent of the 8 year old softball league who assumed all 8 year olds already know how to play. But even I know what a baseball "diamond" looks like.

My wife, whom I love and adore, STILL does not see the problem with the baseball field. Quote, "well, it has the bases and the pitcher's thingy..." not noticing that IT IN NO WAY RESEMBLES A BASEBALL FIELD, even if it does have grass!

The picture on the front page of the NY Times just made me think of this post. Look! Maybe someone *did* google baseball diamond images and just picked up the first photo, which may have been something like this, and ran with it.

Ok. I know this is WAY past normal posting time but I've been up for 8 hours reading this blog and laughing the whole time. Insomnia is a wonderful thing (please keep that in mind when you read my idea of what the cake is).

Since nobody seemed to have the same initial thought I did when I saw this, I decided to send my comment despite how old the post is.

Ya ready? Here it is...

Considering the long grass, I thought it was a set of mower blades hovering over the lawn...ya know? Because a lawn mowing enthusiast would LOVE it! ;o)

I realize this post was a while ago but the cake actually reminds me of a variation of cricket I played in primary school (in Australia), with four bowlers (at the 'ends' of the cross) and either one or two (I forget) batsmen in the middle defending the wicket. If you touched the ball with your bat you had to run out to person who bowled it. Now that was a game to make kids run.

This setup actually reminds me a bit of "beep baseball," AKA baseball for the blind. The batter stands at the center, hits the ball (which is beeping), then heads towards one of three bases (which is also beeping).

However, I'm pretty darn sure that is not what either the cake purchaser or the wreckerator had in mind.

Kenya Starflight? I have have HAVE to tell you this. I know you will probably never read this but it'll make me feel better. That is NOT a braves flag. That is a Cleveland Indians flag. Look it up. Buh bye now.

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